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Dr. Ashok Agarwal is the Director
of the Clinical Andrology Laboratory and Reproductive Tissue Bank, and the
Director of Research at the Center for Advanced Research in Human Reproduction,
Infertility, and Sexual Function. He holds these positions at The Cleveland
Clinic Foundation, where he is a Professor of Surgery and, since 1993, a Staff
in the Glickman Urological Institute, Departments of Obstetrics-Gynecology,
Anatomic Pathology, and Immunology.
Dr. Agarwal received his Ph.D. in 1983 from Banaras Hindu
University, India. He did his post-doctorate training in Reproductive Biology
under a fellowship from The Rockefeller Foundation at Harvard Medical School in
Boston, Massachusetts, where he was an Instructor in Surgery and then an Assistant
Professor of Urology at Harvard Medical School from 1988 to 1993. Dr. Agarwal
is a board certified Clinical Laboratory Director in Andrology by the American
Board of Bioanalysis.
Dr. Agarwal has published over 180 scientific papers
and review articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, authored 20 book
chapters, and presented over 400 papers at both national and international
scientific meetings. He is a member and office bearer of several professional
societies including: American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American
Society of Andrology, American Urological Association, Society for the Study of
Male Reproduction and Urology, and Society for Basic Urologic Research. Dr.
Agarwal is on the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Andrology and the
National Journal of Andrology, and an ad hoc reviewer for the American Journal
of Reproductive Immunology, Andrologia, Asian Journal of Andrology, Biology of
Reproduction, Clinica Chimica Acta, Drugs in R&D, Fertility and Sterility,
Human Reproduction, Human Reproduction Update, International Journal of
Andrology, International Journal of Fertility, Journal of Andrology, Journal of
Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine Journal of
Urology, Lancet, Reproductive Toxicology, Reproductive Biology and
Endocrinology, Reproductive Biomedicine Online, and Urology.
Dr. Agarwal is active in basic and clinical research and
his laboratory has trained over 60 basic scientists and clinical researchers
from the United States and abroad. In addition, over 50 medical, undergraduate,
and high school students have worked in his laboratory. Dr. Agarwal has been
invited as a guest speaker to over 20 countries for important international
meetings. He has directed more than a dozen Andrology Laboratory and ART
Workshops in recent years.
Dr.
Agarwal is the recipient of 44 research grants. His current research interests
include the role of oxidative stress, DNA integrity, and apoptosis in the
pathophysiology of male and female reproduction, cryopreservation of sperm in
patients with cancer, epididymal physiology, and pathophysiology of sexual
dysfunction.
9500 Euclid Avenue/A19.1, Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Glickman
Urological Institute
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Renovascular Surgery · KpŽ
Renal and Pancreas Transplantation · KpŽ
Urologic Oncology
Adrenal Surgery · KpŽ Laparoscopic
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Prostethic Surgery and Genitourethral Reconstruction
Laboratory Research · KpŽ Male
Infertility · KpŽ
Calculus Disease · KpŽ
Female Urology and Voiding Dysfunction